Rare Book & Manuscript Library Events
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RBML’s new exhibit celebrates the 75th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks’s 'Annie Allen' – the poetry collection that won the first Pulitzer Prize by a Black author – and explores the rich history of Black literature’s emergence into the mainstream. On display through May 2025.
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RBML welcomes Jason Dean from the Linda Hall Library to discuss events leading up to the 1712 incident in which John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, burned copies of his own astronomical work, Historia Coelestis. Please sign up to receive the Zoom link at go.illinois.edu/JasonDean